primordially

Since time's dawn

In a manner relating to the earliest origins or most fundamental state of something.

Primordially describes how things existed at the beginning or in their most basic form: The universe was primordially a dense, hot singularity.

The word often carries a sense of deep time or elemental force: Something primordially human stirs when we gather around fires.

origin

genesis

Point of creation

creation · emergence · birth · cosmogony · abiogenesis · source · wellspring · fountainhead · cradle · root

ancient

prehistoric

Before documented civilization

primeval · preternatural · ancestral · paleolithic · aeons · eons · immemorial · ur · proto · autochthonous

instinctual

primal

First in origin

  • visceralArising from deep instinct
  • gutDigestive tract, or instinct
  • innateExisting since birth

hardwired · inborn · survival · instincts · impulse · reflex · drive · biological · subconscious · unconscious

fundamental

essential

Fundamentally necessary

underlying · intrinsic · elemental · rudimentary · constitutive · bedrock · substrate · basement · irreducible · atomic

Opposites
temporal origin

primordiallyrecently

In the near past

lately · modernly · contemporarily · newly · presently

developmental stage

primordiallysophisticatedly

In refined, worldly manner

maturely · modernly · progressively

fundamentality

primordiallyderivatively

In an unoriginal manner

secondarily · superficially · subsequently · consequentially · artificially

Phrases
Family

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